Fabrications

Flour sacks emptied by Runner&Stone's baker were re-purposed as the formwork for nearly 1,000 custom fabricated gently swollen concrete building units. Each "belly block" is uniquely shaped forming billowing walls of concrete that thread through the restaurant, up the stairwell and into the residences above.

Background

FABRICATIONSDesign is a process that benefits from a tangible understanding of the materials involved. It helps to have tools and a workshop to fabricate things. It also helps to have fabricators you can call to talk through the processes of larger scale production. Latent has both.